• Brand new Zuma washes whiter
  • Mnangagwa's return to form
  • Dealing with a wounded tiger
  • Good COPS, bad COPS
  • Oddly normal II
  • Under cover
  • Wojciech Chodan, Pepys and Shell
  • The gas ghost keeps haunting
  • It's the price that counts
  • Peace deal in shreds
  • Drifting apart
  • Hidden depths
  • The stand against Mugabe
  • Sick man, sick opposition
  • The departed return
  • Fighting the Fund
  • Accidental coup
  • Bongo for Bill
  • Deadly diamonds
  • Shell-shocked
  • The fiscal fight
  • The military imbalance
  • Fantasy rules
  • The $2.7 billion hole in the bank
  • Abubakar's offer
  • Bongo's lobby fest
  • Enemies within
  • World-class war
  • Provincial power struggle
  • Confusions in the Cape
  • Whitehall's Africa team
  • Diplomacy with attitude
  • Publishing pearl
  • Lightning strike
  • Big Wheels
  • Island initiative
  • Oil-fired warfare
  • Uneasy peace
  • Compulsory coalition
  • Golden parachutes
  • Eritrea and its cousins
  • Regional collisions
  • It's Omar II
  • Fernandez letter
  • Forced to talk
  • Muluzi's democracy test
  • Divided republic
  • Crisis brings opportunity
  • Reforms, but not radical
  • Cash call
  • Politique a l'Americaine
  • Number crunching
  • Vicious voting
  • The peace process teams
  • The peace deal that wasn't
  • Oceanic turnaround
  • The opposition line-up
  • Can the opposition fight and can it rule?
  • It's not over yet
  • Oddly normal
  • Gluttons for punishment
  • In the fog of peace
  • Unhealthy prospects
  • Open season on Obasanjo
  • Gaydamak goes
  • Cabinet crisis
  • Biya amendment
  • Trouble at Mills's
  • The best elections money can buy
  • Treading on the corn
  • Diamond power
  • New man, new discipline
  • Nigeria takes on Big Oil
  • Lake Albert and the gushers
  • Big oil, dear oil, new oil
  • The main points of the Abyei Protocol
  • The real dividing line
  • The hyperinflation club
  • Tsvangirai's transient victory
  • The ugly endgame
  • Reforming the reformers
  • Down, not out
  • Figuring it out
  • Gauteng for Mbeki
  • Sitting target
  • Butcher Shop
  • Jollies and jets
  • Hotel Hellacious
  • Nightmare on Broad Street
  • The vultures gather
  • Addis plays its diplomatic cards
  • The border deadlock
  • La Françafrique est morte, vive la Françafrique
  • The spirit moves them
  • The ex-revolutionary front
  • Marking ballots, selling shares
  • Harare eyes the Kenyan model
  • The sick man of the south
  • Cocaine coast
  • Goma's ghosts
  • Inscrutable Khama
  • King Bauxite
  • First clean up, then list
  • Stash the cash
  • Moses on the mountain
  • Down the mines
  • Life after a game of golf
  • Trans-Century and transcendental
  • Second honeymoon for the money men
  • Missing the target
  • The road to ruin
  • Elections within elections
  • The people versus Biya
  • On the brink of a deal
  • A birthday at Beitbridge
  • Constituency carve-ups
  • Technical knock-out
  • The Harambee House deal
  • An outbreak of cordiality
  • Lifting the bamboo curtain
  • Bush, the farewell tour
  • Not on parade
  • Local is national
  • The Wade summit
  • Politics of the budget
  • Putting figures on it
  • Thunder on the left
  • Selective divestment
  • Mission position
  • Party probe
  • Bad marks
  • Indicting Kigali
  • The Hillary effect
  • From Chikurubi to Blackbeach
  • Power crisis
  • Cleaning the stables
  • Papers and death merchants
  • Delays in deployment
  • Beyond the borders
  • Déby – caught between Paris and Khartoum
  • Message from the wazungu
  • The safari talks
  • In the lion's den
  • The real Makoni stands up
  • Electrical and political power cuts
  • Divided House in Cape Town
  • Cocaine cops
  • Wealthy sovereigns
  • Ordinary rendition
  • Makoni's mouth
  • Military options
  • The spurned advisor at State House
  • The soldiers wait in the wings
  • Presidents, gems and trade
  • One Conakry, two Lansanas
  • Economic crisis without borders
  • Bring in the money
  • Kabila's men, Kabila's jobs
  • Déjà Kivu
  • Oil and Abuja: A rockier relationship
  • Judgment day is coming
  • Taxing times
  • Higher level
  • Father and son
  • Accounting problems
  • Frontier market
  • The gang's all here
  • Handshakes at dusk
  • Panic, what panic?
  • 'I know the corrupt'
  • Show time for the spooks
  • Zuma's people on top
  • The party is not yet split
  • Jumping ship
  • The heart of the matter
  • Looking for a leader
  • The centre versus the rest
  • Politics and Economics in 2008
  • Elite and underground politics
  • Unjust deserts in the Western Sahara
  • From war to peace
  • Lev Leviev lands in London
  • Kingmakers and charlatans
  • A slow road to travel
  • Political hurdles ahead
  • The Indian Ocean swells
  • Kenya moves closer to the edge
  • Election shockwaves spread
  • Cross patch
  • Mnangagwa momentum
  • Pitching camp
  • Bank blow
  • With a little help from his friends
  • Copper-clad deals
  • At last, a possible peace
  • Race to the top
  • A peninsula war
  • The oil governor under arrest
  • See you in court
  • Not quite indispensable
  • 'Unstoppable tsunami'
  • From the Muthaiga Club to the hustings
  • Raila and Team Tinga
  • Closer and closer
  • Two crocodiles
  • Koroma's Christmas present
  • Regal rivalry
  • The wrong report
  • Ethiopia's options
  • A new man in Mogadishu
  • The Africa Forum
  • Three men in a boat
  • On the edges of the club
  • Moving on
  • Secretarial duties
  • Mr Secretary Sharma
  • Friendly in Kampala
  • Mbeki to the rescue
  • The third man or possibly - woman
  • Zuming ahead
  • Breaking up the party
  • The cedi and pesewa vote
  • Who spends, wins
  • Sanctions sense
  • Guerre du lac
  • Mining undermined
  • Animated suspension
  • Conflict diamonds change shape
  • Less blood on the stones
  • Promises and lies
  • Judges misjudged
  • Wading in
  • All come to the aid of the party – and fight it out
  • The tail wags the dog
  • The compromise candidates
  • This time I'm going. No, really
  • Two hotels go missing
  • Problematic peace as the Commonwealth meets
  • Fund furore and banking bailout
  • New chiefs now, new policies later
  • Scrum half
  • Brown's boycott
  • Digging Belinga
  • In loco parentis
  • The wooing of Kinshasa
  • No borders against trouble
  • Which rules? Whose laws?
  • Godfathers, the sequel
  • Raiding the camps
  • Sam bows out again
  • Conflict in a lakeside church
  • His friend Bob
  • Shooting the messenger
  • Comprehensively breached
  • The Mo Laureate
  • Bond bonanza
  • Renaissance woman
  • Security seats
  • Trading places
  • The new man picks his team
  • Take me to your traditional leader
  • A king's ransom
  • Zuma, Buthelezi and the Zulu nation
  • How many states for the north?
  • Fall out at the top
  • Bad history
  • Wait while we connect you
  • Salva and the Salvation regime
  • Wrong number again
  • Surfing the surge
  • Healing the rift
  • That troublesome border
  • A Katsina man in New York
  • Ban Ki-moon's people
  • Debuts on First Avenue
  • The 'Soro ranks'
  • A do-it-yourself peace
  • Mining men
  • Contract committee
  • Contracts under review
  • Le scandale géologique
  • Intelligence in a divided house
  • Zuma in the sights
  • Exit Pikoli, Chief Prosecutor
  • Doctor, doctor
  • The opposition advantage
  • Trebles all round
  • Southern warning
  • Kasongo v CAMEC
  • Boots nearer to the ground
  • Best election dirhams could buy
  • Revolt in the desert
  • Roots of the ONLF rebellion
  • The Ogaden's trickling sands
  • The banishing of Billy
  • No holds barred
  • Turbulent priests
  • Signs of movement
  • A clean sweep, maybe
  • No ode to joy
  • Yellowcake rebellion
  • A turn for the worse
  • Leaky bucket
  • Putting the country to work
  • Darfur deadlines
  • Cocaine central
  • Secretarial duties
  • Old timers and first timers
  • Africa moves up the agenda
  • Mugabe's people in the provinces
  • He keeps on winning
  • More fighting, more aid
  • Gas project haunts politicians
  • A tale of two cities
  • Unhealthy (II)
  • Unhealthy (I)
  • Smokescreen
  • Neighbours undercover
  • The race to win
  • Who's Who in the war and peace talks
  • Half and half
  • Mission improbable
  • Non-Government Who's Who
  • Government Who's Who
  • Ottawa rewrites the diplomatic and commercial rules
  • Breaking the political mould
  • Closer and more credible
  • Doing good, not doing well
  • Tinga's tractor in top gear
  • Politicians overboard
  • Boiling point
  • Winning ways
  • Rapture not rupture
  • Sam the lifer
  • Going wrong again
  • Parties turn to the young guards
  • Electoral arithmetic
  • Back-biting
  • Rumours and plots
  • Making haste slowly
  • No contest
  • Personal not proportional
  • The first-round fight
  • The Millennium deal
  • More blood, more cash
  • Death of a general
  • POST-PRESIDENTIAL
  • MUGGING MIALA
  • CLIPPING TAIWAN
  • TOWER OF POWER
  • JACQUES ET LE JUGE
  • UNITY ON A SMALLER SCALE
  • ELECTION FAILURE
  • Can't pay, won't pay
  • SOUTH AFRICA'S COMMUNISTS: THE PEOPLE
  • A Communist manifestation - the return of the left
  • WHITE NILE SEES RED IN THE SOUTH
  • Salva's shuffle
  • JUDGING THE JUDGES
  • Justice at a price
  • MINISTERIAL AND MUSICAL CHAIRS
  • Everyone's in the race
  • LONG ARMS
  • BANK ROBBERY
  • BROWNIE POINTS
  • NKUNDA IN THE HILLS
  • BOOKS ON THE BOOM
  • TOKYO'S BUSINESS VILLAGE
  • CYRIL THE SUIT AND HIS ASSETS
  • The race for the presidency heats up as business joins in
  • ECONOMICS OF THE SIEVE
  • Politics of the sieve
  • Good week, bad year
  • THE GADAFFI CARAVAN MOVES ON
  • Nkrumah's second coming
  • Unfunny money
  • Yellow card
  • Francophilie
  • Paris to Lusaka
  • The Nile flows on
  • Mbeki's triumph
  • Where's the door?
  • New team, old players
  • Exeunt sojas
  • All hail to the chief
  • KIVU CLASHES AHEAD
  • SARKO'S TEAM
  • UNITY? WHO WITH?
  • ALL ABOARD
  • THE CLOCK TURNS BACK
  • The cocaine web spreads
  • Post-war hopes hit trouble
  • WARRIORS BY PROXY
  • Unlikely meeting of minds
  • IN DENIAL, IN EXTREMIS
  • INTELLIGENT DESIGN
  • At the barrel of a gun
  • Rival refugees
  • Bienvenue à Alger
  • Gem gumshoes
  • Chissano tastes success
  • Close shave
  • Powers behind the throne
  • Mbeki the mystery
  • The National Islamic Front on parade
  • The NIF goes on a charm offensive
  • RUSSIAN ROULETTE
  • EAT THE DOCUMENT
  • SANCTION ACTION
  • BLOOD CHOCOLATE
  • THE VULCAN HAS LANDED
  • AFRICA'S NEW DEBTORS
  • LIFE WITHOUT JACQUES
  • A strange alliance
  • COSA NAMIBIA
  • Sam and son of Sam
  • BROWN AND THE BROWNITES
  • From Blair to Brown
  • TERROR COMES HOME TO ROOST
  • Campaign confusion
  • CHAMPAGNE IN THE DELTA
  • The new man in Abuja
  • NOT MY PARTY
  • GROUNDED
  • KABILA GETS A RIVAL
  • THE BANK TEST
  • Banished ballots
  • IN THE FRONT RANKS
  • Room at the top
  • The troops see red
  • THE WESTERN RESPONSE
  • Year of the Pig - the new scramble for Africa
  • A WOLF IN THE CONGO
  • Dollars and mines
  • BIG PLANS FOR POWER, ROADS AND WATER
  • THE SHANGHAI SET
  • Kaberuka seizes the moment
  • Privatising politics
  • Border blues
  • EU exports
  • A deal in Lomé
  • A hard act to follow
  • Savimbi's splitters
  • Ethnic straitjackets
  • Fighting talk
  • EXIT ARKADY
  • JUDGES SWOOP
  • NOBLE'S DEMISE
  • VOTE LATER, VOTE OFTEN
  • JACOB AND THE DOG COLLAR
  • L'Avenir c'est Sarko
  • Vultures over Lusaka
  • Stop thief
  • La caravane passe au Mali
  • A break with the past
  • Congo-Kinshasa's cumbersome experiment
  • Oppositionists and activists struggle to shake out the system
  • Africa's mission undermined
  • Caught in the act
  • Up for the cup
  • A new white hope
  • Giant steps
  • A troubled transition
  • Kabila's last throw
  • Arranged marriages
  • Tripoli calling
  • Robbing Peter . . .
  • Micro-state struggles
  • Power cuts
  • Totally elfin
  • Alger l'Africaine
  • Tougher talk
  • Oiling the wheels of peace
  • Showing who's boss
  • French hook
  • The past awakes
  • Going nuclear Russian-style
  • Pass the hat around
  • The trials of Wolfowitz
  • Politicians and their parties
  • ATT seeks takokélén
  • Mogadishu clear up
  • The Jihadists' friend
  • The great gamble
  • Khalifa in court
  • Under attack
  • Uneasy truce in Delta State
  • The men from the south
  • The dealmaking begins
  • RENDITION CONFUSION
  • CHUKKA, NOT PUKKA
  • AREVA IN HOT WATER
  • GOING NUCLEAR
  • Economy
  • Under new management
  • The bashing of Bemba
  • Analysis
  • Kabbah in a hurry
  • Aid and votes
  • Table
  • Too many parties spoil the polls
  • Yar'Adua prepares for power
  • Jacques' jaunt
  • Out of Africa
  • Gerald's jeep
  • Presidential field
  • Too close to call
  • U-turns, screw turns
  • Leakey's big game
  • Problematic peace
  • Desert kingdom or desert republic?
  • Our friend, the new king
  • No jogging
  • ADO ado
  • Gas mask
  • On the fringe of a war
  • A hammer to a nut
  • Manège à trois
  • Old unions, new ANC
  • Not for turning
  • Clearly confusing
  • Obasanjo's one hundred days
  • Self-determination
  • Muddy votes
  • Moi's no-shuffle
  • Choppy waters
  • Chinja maitiro!
  • Nervous tension
  • Friends fall out
  • Complex war, ambitious peace
  • CONSTITUTION CLAMPDOWN
  • CHANGEMENT DANS LA SERENITE
  • A BLOW-UP BLOWS OVER
  • DEADLY COLLABORATION
  • Oil's new power
  • A frontier affair
  • The wealth in common
  • Rough justice
  • How to put it together again - as the Mugabe regime totters
  • Regional ructions
  • Coming to the aid of the parties
  • No-party politics rule
  • Claims on Kebble's gold
  • First murder, now money
  • Trouble in the neighbourhood
  • Discontent in the air
  • Muluzi the Third
  • The thirsty wait for water
  • The kidnap mystery
  • To chop or to save - the main players
  • Can the trees be saved?
  • All their own work
  • The neighbours are unstable
  • Referee in a tug-of-war
  • Measuring the dirty money
  • Financial secrecy
  • Which clan is in charge now?
  • Peacekeepers under fire
  • Soft sell at 50
  • Cash and blood on the streets
  • Beware the Ides of March
  • Mosisili's snap victory
  • Trade union truce
  • Bad medicine
  • Southern front
  • First steps
  • Pipe Dreams
  • Zambia's big new investments
  • The bitter side of the boom
  • Mining revolt
  • A highly political budget
  • Chirac's last Cannes-Cannes
  • Wade gets his way
  • A rare soldiering success
  • Hinga's death hits home
  • Indictments, then elections
  • The grudge match goes on
  • Global prisoner
  • Authoritarian alliances
  • Senegal Elections 2007
  • SWAPO splinters
  • China in Chambeshi
  • Buying time
  • Anniversary boycott
  • Toxic traffic
  • Shuffling the deckchairs
  • Conté goes another round
  • Who counts in the Darfur rebellion?
  • The commanders confer
  • Women in power
  • Muluzi on the record
  • Ethnic alarums
  • Odinga and the Oranges
  • Kabila's yes-men
  • Winner takes (almost) all
  • Cyril eyes the presidency
  • Raining on the parade
  • No deal for Seck
  • Bond breakthrough
  • Snowe white-out
  • Minni on the rampage
  • Guebuza and governance
  • Upwards and onwards
  • Ghana's gain
  • The snubbing of Sudan
  • How crooks still exploit the system
  • The Addis to Mogadishu axis
  • Two peas in a pod
  • The strike that shook Conté
  • Buhari's election headlines
  • What future for the reform team?
  • Party pieces
  • Polls postponed
  • Bad moon rising
  • Strangers in the night
  • Who said what to whom?
  • Promised land
  • Enter the capitalists
  • Packaging the peacekeepers
  • Gushing higher
  • Breaking the line
  • South Africa's spat
  • How to run a continent
  • Bailing out President Mugabe
  • New Year election blues
  • Tafidan's ghost
  • Marching across the border
  • Peace but no keepers
  • Politics and Economics in 2007
  • Waiting in line
  • Succession sagas
  • The new frontlines
  • The Pharoah's long adieu
  • Old soldiers never die
  • Generals and lawyers
  • On the brink
  • Candidates and rivals
  • Annivesaries and elections
  • Annual Conference
  • Law wars
  • Trade-off
  • Crossing the river
  • Hotel Mogadishu
  • Crossed lines
  • An economic fairy tale
  • Joining the big league
  • Washington shuffle
  • Testing Mittal's steel
  • Economy up, politics down
  • Peace and security
  • Khartoum's proxies
  • Militias and the South
  • The Southern front reopens
  • Penalty shoot-out
  • Knocking out the lion's teeth
  • Retaliatory justice
  • Resolution riddles
  • Grafters' gridlock
  • Comeback couples
  • Atiku again
  • Forget the politics, say advisors
  • Powering up
  • The President speaks
  • Investigation down under
  • No win, no gain
  • Voters and protestors start to register
  • A plan from the centre
  • Sudan targets Chad
  • Defining the peacekeepers
  • The Darfur deadline passes
  • La grande rupture
  • The police chief, his friends and foes
  • Help, murder, police!
  • Carpet crossing
  • Presidential chopper
  • Vila Algarve
  • Turki's landing
  • All property is theft
  • The established producers
  • The new exploration grounds
  • Digging a black hole
  • After the results
  • Sekibo and the drones
  • An outsider moves up the list
  • Breaking the arms embargo
  • The Mujuru political network
  • Surreal succession
  • Banny's bonus
  • Madonna madness
  • Ill-judged death
  • Missing in action
  • Fear of flying
  • Legal minefields
  • Economic star, social crisis
  • Upbeat Statisticians
  • Beyond the Horn
  • Commerce, cooperation and controversy
  • The Dutch diversion
  • Wars across borders
  • Boots on the ground
  • Starstruck Starcrest
  • The next election deadline
  • Contretemps
  • Toxic trials
  • Riek's battalion
  • Kobi's refuge
  • Signal from Saudi
  • No man an island
  • No EASSY rider
  • Diamond dollars
  • Diamonds, gold and guns
  • Who is eligible to vote?
  • The road to the ANC's 2007 National Conference
  • The ANC's toughest election yet
  • All for one, not yet
  • The Titanic sails at dawn
  • Brothers in Armenia
  • The anti-corruption collapse
  • Carole Collins
  • Sam sues
  • Radio row
  • The West's weakness
  • Jammeh tomorrow
  • Let it walk
  • Toxic timeline
  • The toxic trade
  • Cairo's costly hubris
  • Pride and prejudice
  • No consensus on the census
  • Leaving it late
  • Peace postponed
  • Enter ex-Presidents
  • Back in the fold
  • Khartoum's jihadis
  • Crying Wolfowitz
  • One of us cannot be wrong
  • Déby supreme, for now
  • Ambitions in the north
  • Pots, kettles and corruption
  • Easy for Jammeh
  • A bull in China's shop
  • Gosh again
  • Biya goes on and on
  • Dubious coup
  • Mbeki's diplomatic team
  • New powers, new policy
  • Heading north
  • Mission Mogadishu
  • A threat to the Horn and beyond
  • The forces in Darfur's war
  • Presidential hopefuls take to the road
  • Countdown for Conté
  • Explosive results
  • Troubled talks
  • Sam and the successors
  • The real rebels
  • Cabinda dreaming
  • Starter's orders
  • Zapping the zeroes
  • A political resurrection
  • Undercurrent
  • Bredenkamp busted
  • Democratic deficits
  • Levy and King Cobra
  • Budget bludgeon
  • Flirting with the enemy
  • After Darfur's deal
  • Courts without authority
  • Two elections, one country
  • Khartoum's veto
  • Challengers step up
  • Snow white
  • The governor's dues
  • Up close and personal
  • Front-runners and hopefuls
  • A new political season
  • Pressure mounts to end neglect of the North
  • Opening broadside
  • Pause in St Petersburg
  • Charles Janson
  • Unhappy returns
  • Time's up
  • Zanzibar: the islands are quiet for now
  • Zero tolerance, so far
  • New Luanda's gleaming towers
  • Beijing's embrace
  • Beijing's touring team